Righteous Government
"I call attention to the fact that Jehovah God, more
than six thousand years ago, promised to establish
through the Messiah a government of righteousness.
He will keep that promise in due season. The
present-day facts in the light of prophecy indicate
that it is near..."
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
( Judge Rutherford )
Former Legal Counsel for Watch Tower Society
President of Watch Tower Society (1917-1942)
Former Special Judge of the Eighth Judicial
Circuit of the State of Missouri
Former Public Prosecutor for Boonville,
Missouri
The above quoted statement of Judge Rutherford
was made in oral argument before the Supreme Court
of the United States in Minersville School District
[ Pensylvania ] versus Gobitis.
The decision in the 1940 Gobitis case was reversed, in
favor of Jehovah's Witnesses, by the 1943 case of
West Virginia State Board of Education versus Barnette.